Senior Member of Technical Staff

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small engineering team building AI tools for law enforcement and the broader criminal justice system. In this high-autonomy role, you will develop secure systems that help investigators search and analyze complex evidence, supporting important public safety work. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-powered evidence search and analysis. - Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings. - Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search for unstructured evidence. - Build structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning capabilities. - Work with agentic systems that can reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data. - Evaluate emerging AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive projects from problem definition through delivery. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems, including production deployment of LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems. - Proficiency in Python and multiple programming languages, potentially including JavaScript and React. - Experience designing RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data, and building structured data systems with query planning, semantic modeling, or reasoning. - Experience working across multiple infrastructure providers, with security and resilience as core considerations. - A strong engineering background that includes experience in both an established organization and an early-stage startup. - Curiosity about AI, comfort with ambiguity, and motivation to contribute to public safety. - Authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS The salary range is $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, California.